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William St. Cloud’s Aug. 21 column, “Congress should not deny deal with Iran,” said we need to support the President Barack Obama/Sen. John Kerry deal with Iran for peace in the Middle East. I was amazed that there are people so uninformed at what is going on with this agreement.

I will not go into a laundry list of reasons why this deal is a disaster, but let me share a recent report that may help lift the blinders off the eyes of those who just nod yes to whatever a liberal leader tells them.

Given recent events in the early stages of the presidential campaign, one cannot help but wonder why there is a political revolt heading into the 2016 elections.

At least part of the explanation may lie in the notion that Americans have at times disdained hereditary political candidates, or at least harbored deep suspicion about their leadership qualifications.

Smooth pavement. It’s been increasingly hard to find in Lancaster County and South Carolina in recent years. Help is on the way, though, that will resurface more than 50 miles of roads in the county in 2016. That’s a tenfold increase over the number of miles resurfaced in some recent years.

Due to a filibuster late in the legislative session, senators were unable to debate a House of Representatives road-funding bill before our mandatory adjournment date in June.

There are many things that must be done before sending your child back to school. In addition to buying new clothes and stocking your child’s backpack with the right supplies, make sure she or he has an annual physical and the proper immunizations to start the new school year on a healthy foundation.

The only reason I say 90 percent is that the Supreme Court did decree in 2001 that Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) was approved to conduct non-denominational Good News clubs, like Sunday school, in public schools in their after-school programs.

Is it possible for people to be smart and foolish, educated and unwise? The elected leaders of America, our judges and our progressive ideology seem to say yes. When one studies the ideology of the political progressive left I would say yes.

The new state Department of Administration paid about $61,000 for a web-based training program on ethics that some 24,000 state employees will have to watch.

Under a 2014 executive order by Gov. Nikki Haley establishing the “State Employee Code of Conduct Task Force,” which made the training recommendations, the instruction is mandatory for workers in the governor’s 17 cabinet agencies and Governor’s Office.

Retiree Day at the Lancaster Police Department was Aug. 7. Nine of us gathered at the pistol range to eat biscuits, drink coffee, tell war stories and qualify to carry a concealed weapon.

The Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2004, requires local departments to provide a qualified law enforcement retiree with a valid concealed carry ID and to qualify them with their handgun once a year at the officer’s expense.